The House Of Mirth (1905) By: Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is the story of Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man, a hothouse flower for conspicuous consumption. As an unmarried woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society that created her. Written in the style of a novel of manners, The House of Mirth was the fourth novel by Edith Wharton (1862-1937), which tells the story of Lily Bart against the background of the high-society of upper class New York City of the 1890s; as a genre novel, The House of Mirth (1905) is an example of American literary naturalism.

• • Author: Edith Wharton
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Mar 18, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 216 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1530607434
• • ISBN-13: 9781530607433